I have to be honest with you: This isn't really archaic art. It's just some random stuff I started to draw one day, in the middle of a boring class. It's only that. And then again it's more than that. At first I started doing quick sketches of my teacher or the guys sitting next to me. And after doing this for almost a year I got better at it. I improved. They say practice will often cause that... a certain improvement. If that's the case, I'll continue holding pens and nibs.

July 27, 2011

Old Man Logan

Fifty years ago, all super-heroes were murdered. Everyone knows that, but nobody knows what was the villains secret weapon. Traveling throughout the United States, from Hulkland, to the kingdom of the Kingpin, and to Doom’s Lair, Logan and Clint Barton (AKA Hawkeye) have seen wrecked towns, skeletons of giants, decay, evidences that something very sinister and awful had happened. Now, it’s time to wonder exactly how it happened.

cover / portada

Clint asks Logan to confide in him, and Logan, either too desperate or to tired, decides to share his memories, memories he had long buried. A major plot twist takes place in chapter five, as Logan tells Clint what exactly happened the night Wolverine died, the night he sheathed his claws for the last time.

Enemies / enemigos

McNiven’s pages combine the aesthetic effort of the true artist with the violence and savagery required by the script. The brutal dance of bodies, the decapitation, the blood, the mutilation, it all conveys one greater image of death. Death is, after all, the remaining constant in Old Man Logan. As has been explained by psychoanalysts like Jacques Lacan, there comes a time in which real death, the biological extinction is not enough, and thus a symbolic death becomes necessary. That is why every culture in the world honors the death, and carries out specific rites in order to do so. What Logan has been trying to say all this time is that, by overlapping the usual order, he has summoned a symbolic death for his old self. Wolverine, the X-Man, the fighter, the “best there is at what he does” is dead.

Wolverine unleashed / Wolverine desatado

As the journey progresses, Logan and Clint are aided by Emma Frost, the most powerful psychic of the world. Age has caught up with her, but she refuses to accept that and so projects an image of youth onto the minds of everyone in the Forbidden Quarter, near Doom’s Lair. Logan and Hawkeye get closer to New Babylon, and go through Pym Falls, just as Hammer Falls is the place in which Mjolnir fell down (as can be seen in the first post), Pym Falls is the avenger’s final ground.

Extraordinary composition / extraordinaria composición

Published under the ‘parental advisory’ banner, Old Man Logan portrays a cruel and harsh reality that could never be published in the ‘normal’ Marvel Universe. New Babylon (formerly New York City) is a haven for morally reprehensible businesses. The streets are swarmed by prostitutes, both male and female, as can be attested by the signs under Red Skull’s statue (in neon lights one of them says ‘girls’ and the other one says ‘boys’), and even a transvestite can be seen in one of the frames.

What was Clint Barton’s precious cargo? And who can they trust in such a corrupted city?

You know the enemies page was just a proof of how Millar does not know Jackshit about X-men villains or power levels in general.I mean let's take only 3 of these guys, Sabretooth: this guy while kind of manageable for Logan to fight , is still a friggin monster whether in mind or body & KNOWS how to destabilise WolvieOmega red: this is the supersoldier that can manage himself against a team so you bet if Wolvie can do that much, especially against the death sporesLady Deathstrike: It's already hard to beat her in solo , so her plus a team...

Stryfe: Okay , forget the group THIS guy on his own stomps Wolverine like a martial artist would crush an ant. Stryfe is a powerful TK/TP user & he is in the Team wreckers class of villains. In fact Wolvie would have his claws shoved down his own ass before moving a foot towards the guy.

So for me the whole Wolvie beats all these guys on his own is just fucking ridiculous & shows the mary suish pandering of Hack Millar towards the character

I don't know if Logan has ever fought Sabretooth, Omega Red and Lady Deathstrike at the same time, but clearly this is not case. I've tried to avoid spoilers in case someone hasn't read the story, but if you have read it then you know he isn't fighting with any villains at all...Again, let's just keep it at that, I don't want to spoil the story.

About Me

Comic books are my passion. They are as precious to me as the oxygen I breathe, and perhaps even more. The 9th art has been a part of my life for as long as I can remember. And through the years, this passion kept on increasing, thus turning me into an active participant. I started as a reader and later on I became a full-fledged writer and artist. Indeed I’ve found the perfect way to have twice as much pleasure when it comes to comics: I can either read them or write and draw them. And I absolutely love doing both!